Since I’m being lazy and I’m sort of busy at the momentSmart Mouth Broad listed her top ten seven pet peeves, I decided to copy her and make my own list of top ten things that set my teeth on edge.
1. People that smack when they eat. I can’t handle smacking even when it comes from a baby. My children and grandchildren learned early that if they smack, I will close their lips for them. *no I don’t hurt them*
2. People who chew with their mouths open and talk with their mouths full. Yes, I have eating issues, apparently.
3. Tailgaters. I won’t flip you off but if you ride my butt I will only go that much slower. grrrrrrrrr…..
4. Having to give my email address when making a purchase and then getting tons of spam afterwards. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr…..
5. Sitting down to pee and finding an empty toilet paper roll. double grrrrrrrrrrrr……
6. Ending a phone conversation and hanging up without saying “goodbye”.
7. Pfishing scams cluttering my email inbox.
8. Websites with music. It’s distracting and I won’t hang around.
9. People who don’t wash their hands when they’ve been to the bathroom.
10. People who are rude.
Well folks, that’s my top ten for today, but it changes quite frequently so expect more in the future.
What is your number one pet peeve and what do you do when it happens?
OMG! I gave up way too soon. I share all of these with you and more. My need for sleep was clouding my brain. #9 is soooo on my list that I wrote something about it way before I ever started a blog. Now you’ve gotten me all stirred up again. The list is endless. LOL
Thanks for the shout out!
Lights. If YOU are NOT in the room…and there is NO ONE in the room…and there isn’t gonna be ANYONE in the room…then turn the damn lights off already. Thanks!
1. People who ask for your advice and then ignore what you say……and continue to complain about the same thing over and over and over and over…… I’m really impatient with people who go “shopping” for solutions. “OK, Bob, I’ll trade solution box 3 for what’s behind curtain 2!”
2. People who have no secrets. C’mon, I don’t need to know what that taco did to your digestive system, how your daughter’s hormones are affecting her married life, how often you have sex, or what your best friend told you in confidence. Because I know that YOU will be talking about me the minute I go out the door.
People who say “up” instead of “increase”. The doctor is increasing my medications so I don’t snap that annoying person’s head off at the collarbones, not “upping” them. Things may GO up, but they don’t just “up.”
People who tell me they have a surprise for me, then get upset because I don’t pester them to tell me what it is. If you want to tell me, just TELL me. If you have a surprise for me, then SURPRISE me with it. DO NOT tell me you have a surprise for me that I can’t have until the 5th Tuesday of next month and then follow me around for the next 6 hours saying, “But don’t you want to know what it is?”
And I may get ripped for this one, but people who bring VERY small children to VERY expensive restaurants. I do not want to pay $60 for Beef Wellington and an additional $40 for a bottle of very nice Bordeaux – not to mention the $12-per-glass single malt scotch I fully intend to have as a cocktail – so I can sit next to little Johnny while he screeches and flings Cheerios into my lobster bisque. There are just some places very small children do not belong, and a four-star restaurant is one of them.
Oh, and add to that list people who bring babies and/or toddlers to 9 p.m. showings of R-rated movies. I sure as hell didn’t pay $8.50 for a ticket – to say nothing of the small loan I had to take out for popcorn and a drink – so I could listen to your baby cry or you tell little Johnny to sit still, be quiet and watch the gratuitous violence and sex on the screen.
Oh Jan…ding, ding, ding…give that woman a prize! Add to yours, the people who bring small children to work with them. If the kids is too sick for daycare, he’s too sick to come to work with you. Not only am I annoyed by all the whining and noise, but I’m gonna catch his sickness too! Take the stinkin day off and take care of your kid AT HOME!
One of my pet peeves, and it may seem small to some of you, is those post card reply thingies stuck inside my magazines. The first thing I do is rip them all out and then I very graciously send them all back (blank of course) to the companies so that they have to pay the prepaid postage. Maybe if I send enough of them back they will quit putting them in my magazines.
Oh, and I hate un-ironed clothes on professional people. Get a maid. I also hate people who stink. Water and soap are cheap…use some.
Lip smacking is bad, but what about noisy cutlery scraping? That really bugs me.
Most of your top ten are on my list too (though I am still advising a special email address for internet purposes only; it really does help cut down the spam).
Hey, what happened to your link on Midlife Bloggers?
wow…this has been a real *purge session* …i was starting to get a little edgey there, feeling as if i’d wandered into an anti-mommy bloggers site LOL…i kinda like it
@stepping thru – those little postcards are treasured in my house…by the dogs…i let them rip them up and eat ‘em…never occurred to me to mail them back blank!! my BIL is going to love that one…
@steppingthru: You might try shaking the magazine so that those cards fall on the floor of the market/bookstore. That way, you don’t have to take (half of) them home.
I’d like to add: Any magazine that has more ads than substance (which is most of them nowadays). I usually go through and tear out all of the ads and end up with a magazine 1/3 it’s original size, with another 1/3 having ads on the backs of the remaining pages. What a rip for 30 pages at $4.99 or $5.99 or whatever they cost now.
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October 10, 2008 at 2:15 am
OMG! I gave up way too soon. I share all of these with you and more. My need for sleep was clouding my brain. #9 is soooo on my list that I wrote something about it way before I ever started a blog. Now you’ve gotten me all stirred up again. The list is endless. LOL
Thanks for the shout out!
October 10, 2008 at 2:25 am
Ha ha, great list. Here’s one of mine:
People that fake paying attention, but don’t listen to a word you say.
Happy Friday!
October 10, 2008 at 5:11 am
you hit the nail on the head, girl. Tailgaters are my worst peeve for sure!
October 10, 2008 at 6:04 am
Lights. If YOU are NOT in the room…and there is NO ONE in the room…and there isn’t gonna be ANYONE in the room…then turn the damn lights off already. Thanks!
October 10, 2008 at 7:10 am
Great list!
One of my favorites is people who ALWAYS say “let me know if you need anything.” Yet the one time you ask for assistance, they can’t be bothered.
Liars and Braggarts are always at the top of my lists as well!
October 10, 2008 at 8:32 am
1. People who ask for your advice and then ignore what you say……and continue to complain about the same thing over and over and over and over…… I’m really impatient with people who go “shopping” for solutions. “OK, Bob, I’ll trade solution box 3 for what’s behind curtain 2!”
2. People who have no secrets. C’mon, I don’t need to know what that taco did to your digestive system, how your daughter’s hormones are affecting her married life, how often you have sex, or what your best friend told you in confidence. Because I know that YOU will be talking about me the minute I go out the door.
October 10, 2008 at 9:27 am
People who say “up” instead of “increase”. The doctor is increasing my medications so I don’t snap that annoying person’s head off at the collarbones, not “upping” them. Things may GO up, but they don’t just “up.”
People who tell me they have a surprise for me, then get upset because I don’t pester them to tell me what it is. If you want to tell me, just TELL me. If you have a surprise for me, then SURPRISE me with it. DO NOT tell me you have a surprise for me that I can’t have until the 5th Tuesday of next month and then follow me around for the next 6 hours saying, “But don’t you want to know what it is?”
And I may get ripped for this one, but people who bring VERY small children to VERY expensive restaurants. I do not want to pay $60 for Beef Wellington and an additional $40 for a bottle of very nice Bordeaux – not to mention the $12-per-glass single malt scotch I fully intend to have as a cocktail – so I can sit next to little Johnny while he screeches and flings Cheerios into my lobster bisque. There are just some places very small children do not belong, and a four-star restaurant is one of them.
October 10, 2008 at 9:30 am
Oh, and add to that list people who bring babies and/or toddlers to 9 p.m. showings of R-rated movies. I sure as hell didn’t pay $8.50 for a ticket – to say nothing of the small loan I had to take out for popcorn and a drink – so I could listen to your baby cry or you tell little Johnny to sit still, be quiet and watch the gratuitous violence and sex on the screen.
October 10, 2008 at 9:44 am
Oh Jan…ding, ding, ding…give that woman a prize! Add to yours, the people who bring small children to work with them. If the kids is too sick for daycare, he’s too sick to come to work with you. Not only am I annoyed by all the whining and noise, but I’m gonna catch his sickness too! Take the stinkin day off and take care of your kid AT HOME!
October 10, 2008 at 10:21 am
One of my pet peeves, and it may seem small to some of you, is those post card reply thingies stuck inside my magazines. The first thing I do is rip them all out and then I very graciously send them all back (blank of course) to the companies so that they have to pay the prepaid postage. Maybe if I send enough of them back they will quit putting them in my magazines.
Oh, and I hate un-ironed clothes on professional people. Get a maid. I also hate people who stink. Water and soap are cheap…use some.
October 10, 2008 at 11:08 am
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October 10, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Lip smacking is bad, but what about noisy cutlery scraping? That really bugs me.
Most of your top ten are on my list too (though I am still advising a special email address for internet purposes only; it really does help cut down the spam).
Hey, what happened to your link on Midlife Bloggers?
October 10, 2008 at 9:05 pm
wow…this has been a real *purge session* …i was starting to get a little edgey there, feeling as if i’d wandered into an anti-mommy bloggers site LOL…i kinda like it
@stepping thru – those little postcards are treasured in my house…by the dogs…i let them rip them up and eat ‘em…never occurred to me to mail them back blank!! my BIL is going to love that one…
October 10, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Everyone: I love all your comments and I’ll address them all after the girls leave. Hope you all have a great weekend.
October 11, 2008 at 3:55 am
#8, I hate that, I have a site that comes with a player, It is sitting empty and will more than likely stay that way.
October 13, 2008 at 12:28 pm
@steppingthru: You might try shaking the magazine so that those cards fall on the floor of the market/bookstore. That way, you don’t have to take (half of) them home.
I’d like to add: Any magazine that has more ads than substance (which is most of them nowadays). I usually go through and tear out all of the ads and end up with a magazine 1/3 it’s original size, with another 1/3 having ads on the backs of the remaining pages. What a rip for 30 pages at $4.99 or $5.99 or whatever they cost now.